St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-21
AT THE HOTELS.
Visitors to the City, and What
They Said on a Clammy Day.

Visitors to the City, and What
They Said on a Clammy Day.
Gen. Baker, the long, slim politician,
high stopper, and eX-member of the
board of railroad commissioners, came
in from Mankato last night, with his
coat buttoned up around his neck. Its
cold" he said, rubbing his hands to-
gether, and backing up to the Merchants
stove. ''It'S cold now, and a man wants
an OvercOat to keep him warm, but if L
mistake not, and Judge from the signs
of the time. the political fight over con-
gresham in the Fifth district will make
it so hot in the Northern part of the
state that we will be walking around
draped i'll linen busters, next January"
C. b. SLEEPER.
c. B. Sleeper, prominent citizen OF
Brainerd, was letting the heat from the
stove in the rotunda of the Merchants
drift up his trousers legs yesterday aft
ernOOn. Mr.. Sleeper is progressive
Northwestern citizen, and modern
politician. He came near being elected
mayor of Brainerd last spring in spite
of protests by him that he wasn't hank
ering after the office. He stands away
up in the community in which he lives
and is identified with the vital interests
u.
across the river at that point will give
Brainerd valuable water power that
will materially increase her Importance
as an inland city. Besides this, rail
roads are pointed in her direction.
G. S. ENGLE.
q. S. Engle came in from Aberdeen
last night and stepped at the Merchants.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Engle.
Everybody in the Northwest knows
George Engle, for few months ago he
was the legal adviser of Gil Pierce,
when he was governor. AS attorney
general of Dakota, MIR. Engle was
success, although through political COM
binationS his head rolled into the basket
after its owner had enjoyed but brief
reign. Mr.. Engle is one of those cool,
calm and collected individuals who
knows his business and votes the Demo-
cratic ticket. He absolutely refuses to
be bulldozed, as Secretary Mccormack,
the territory, can testify. Mr.. Engle
plays an exceedingly clever game of
billiards, and it is claimed that he holds
a strong hand with the administration
at Washington. His headquarters are at
Aberdeen, where he attends to
a lucrative law practice, and,
and cuffs, he is able to wear
linen if his taste happens to take tnrn
in that direction. Mr.. Engle says Aber-
deem is enjoying very brisk trade in
real estate and general merchandise,
and the town has grown so rapidly that
G. Boyd Barrett has been warranted in
starting daily paper there. Next
spring a regular old-fashioned Dakota
boom is looked for. When the question
of division was preached. Mr.. Engel
was not extremely laxative, but he
seemed inclined to think that the local
option andsdivisiOn issues being hitched
together, both questions would carry.
DONALD JEFFREY.
Donald Jeffrey came into the Mer-
chants last evening and registered from
Minot, Oak. That point, where Mr..
Jeffrey makes his home is the end of the
Manitoba road extension Osten-.
west toward Great Falls and in
few weeks the rails will be laid well on
towards Great Falls. Mr.. jeffrey says
Minot just now is a typical Western
town with about 500 people in it. AL
though they get interested now and
then in local politics, as general thing
they get worked up a great deal more
over good, warm game of poker or a
faro layout. Gambling, he said, is now
one. of the chief employments of the
citizens of the town, which is populated
principally by railroad men. The road.
however, runs through splendid stock
and agricultural country and Great
Falls he thinks will be wonderfully
prosperous city before decade has
passed.
J. W. POWER.
J. W. Power, leading business man
of Fort Benton, came in last night and
placed his signature on the Ryan regis
ter. Mr.. Power says that though the
mass of people don't hear much of the
town away up in Northern Montana, it
is rapidly getting to the front and will
one of these days be city of no little
Importance. This summer there has
been lively real estate boom there and
Eastern capitalists have invested
there heavily, believing that the town
has prosperous future before it. With
a railroad connection with the East and
West at Helena and Great Falls there
will be nothing to prevent it from strid-
ing rapidly forward.